The new cleanroom at our global headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, was designed for today's rigorous contamination control expectations, driven by EU GMP Annex 1. Learn More
This eBook addresses common challenges and best practices for medical-device manufacturers with questions about testing their products. Table of Contents: EO Optimization and Potential Effects on Sterile-Barrier Packaging Patient-Specific Implants Often Require More Testing Extractable Chemical Characterization and Risk Assessment:...
Six steps to assess the situation and determine how to move forward… Each medical device present or coming on the market needs to have a demonstrated biocompatibility to protect users from potential biological risks arising from its intended clinical use....
Ensuring that reusable medical devices can be properly cleaned, disinfected, and/or sterilized is imperative to ensure patient safety and to minimize healthcare-acquired infections, corrective actions, and recalls. Regulatory agencies and healthcare facilities are increasingly concerned about the spread of diseases,...
Understanding the sterility assurance level To understand how steam sterilization processes are validated, it is important to understand some key concepts about sterilization. The purpose of sterilization is to inactivate microbiological contaminants, thereby rendering products sterile[1]. The kinetics of inactivation...
ISO 17664:2017[1] as well as FDA[2] state that if a medical device is intended to be sterilized, at least one validated sterilization method must be specified in the IFU. Consequently, if devices are intended to be steam sterilized, at least...
